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Check your readiness for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam with 50 exam-style questions across all five domains, each with an instant explanation. Free to take, timed to the pace of the real exam, and retake it as often as you want.
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This free CompTIA Security+ practice test checks your readiness for the SY0-701 exam with 50 exam-style questions across all five domains, each with an explanation for every answer choice, on a 50-minute timer that matches the one-minute-per-question pace of the real exam. Built by Training Camp, an authorized CompTIA partner, and drawn from the same objectives we teach in our Security+ Boot Camp. New to the exam? Learn more about the Security+ certification.
SY0-701 is organized into five weighted domains, and this test pulls questions from each: General Security Concepts (12%), Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations (22%), Security Architecture (18%), Security Operations (28%), and Security Program Management and Oversight (20%). The real exam has a maximum of 90 questions, a 90-minute time limit, and a passing score of 750 on a scale of 100 to 900. It mixes multiple-choice items with performance-based questions that drop you into a simulated environment and ask you to configure or analyze something.
CompTIA recommends CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) and about two years of experience in a security or systems administrator role before sitting the exam. For the full breakdown, see our Security+ exam objectives; the domains follow CompTIA's published SY0-701 exam objectives. CompTIA refreshes its exam objectives and question pool on an ongoing basis, and we keep our practice questions aligned with the current published parameters rather than any single fixed release.
Take it once without notes to get an honest baseline. Read the explanation for every answer, including the ones you got right, because the incorrect-choice explanations are where the distinctions between similar concepts (tokenization versus encryption, SAML versus OAuth, containment versus eradication) get spelled out. Then focus your study on your weakest domain and retake the test in a week. The 50-minute timer over 50 questions keeps you honest about pacing: the real SY0-701 exam gives you 90 minutes for up to 90 questions, so get used to deciding in about a minute and moving on.
Domains Covered · SY0-701
CIA triad, security controls, Zero Trust, change management, and cryptographic solutions.
Malware, social engineering, attacks, and countermeasures.
Architecture models, enterprise infrastructure, data protection, and resilience and recovery.
Monitoring, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability management.
Governance, risk, compliance, and security awareness.
Four questions from the bank, one per domain, with the reasoning behind every answer. The full test has 50.
An organization is implementing a Zero Trust architecture. When a subject requests access to a resource, one component evaluates the request against policy and makes the allow, deny, or revoke decision, while other components set up and enforce the resulting session. Which component MAKES the access decision?
Correct. In the Zero Trust model, the Policy Engine runs the trust algorithm and makes the grant, deny, or revoke decision. The Policy Administrator then acts on that decision and the PEP enforces it.
An attacker exploits the brief interval between the moment an application verifies a user is authorized to a file and the moment it actually opens that file, swapping in a different file during that gap. Which vulnerability class is being exploited?
Correct. A TOCTOU race condition exploits the window in which a resource's state changes between the authorization check and the actual use, letting the attacker substitute a different file.
To reduce PCI DSS scope, a retailer wants to replace stored primary account numbers with substitute values that have no mathematical relationship to the original data and can only be mapped back through a separate secure vault. Which technique is this?
Correct. Tokenization replaces sensitive data with a surrogate token that has no algorithmic relationship to the original. The mapping is held in a secure token vault, which reduces PCI DSS scope.
A network team monitors 300 switches using SNMPv2c community strings and copies nightly configuration backups to a server over TFTP. An internal audit requires that all device management traffic be both authenticated and encrypted, while the monitoring and backup functions must continue. Which change BEST satisfies the audit finding?
Correct. SNMPv3 in authPriv mode adds user authentication and encrypts the management traffic, and SFTP runs the file transfer over SSH. This is the secure protocol selection SY0-701 objective 4.5 expects: replace cleartext protocols (SNMPv1/v2c, TFTP, FTP, Telnet) with their authenticated, encrypted equivalents while keeping the function in place.
Every one of the 50 questions works this way: an explanation for the right answer and for the one you picked, so a wrong answer teaches you something. Questions last reviewed against the current CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) objectives.
Quick answers about the test, the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam, and how to prepare.
Yes. Training Camp's Security+ practice test is free to take. You get exam-style questions across all five CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 domains, with a written explanation for every answer choice.
It is 50 multiple-choice scenario questions drawn from all five SY0-701 domains, with an instant explanation after each answer and a 50-minute timer, which matches the one-minute-per-question pace of the real exam. You can retake it as often as you want. It is a readiness check, not a substitute for full preparation.
The CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam has a maximum of 90 questions and a 90-minute time limit, including multiple-choice and performance-based questions.
You need a scaled score of 750 on a scale of 100 to 900 to pass the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam.
SY0-701 covers five domains: General Security Concepts (12%), Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations (22%), Security Architecture (18%), Security Operations (28%), and Security Program Management and Oversight (20%).
Security+ is an entry-to-intermediate certification. CompTIA recommends CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) and about two years of experience in a security or systems administrator role. With that background and steady practice with exam-style questions it is very achievable; the performance-based questions are usually the hardest part, so get hands-on time as well.
CompTIA recommends CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) and about two years of experience in a security or systems administrator role. Beyond practice questions, use a structured Security+ study guide and consider an accelerated Security+ Boot Camp to certify fast with an exam voucher included.